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Moleskine hipster,
originally uploaded by DarkHawke.

Woo, check it out, a Moleskine GTD mod.

Short story’s going well! Of course, by tomorrow I’ll probably think it’s eye-bleedingly bad simplistic tosh, but such are the emotional mood swings of the creative classes! *feels an undue urge to sit in a corner and write angsty metaphysical poetry*

So Apple came out with an iPod boombox. Huh. Shame it’s ugly, I’d much rather have a because I’d worry about knocking the ‘pod out of the universal dock on the top of Apple’s offering.

Best music video ever?

I think so. At least that I’ve seen. But then, I was never a massive fan of Thriller anyway.
So this video is made from fifteen second snatches from a Nikon Coolpix 775 laced together in After Effects. The way it’s put together is simply stunning, and I love the bit on the bike.

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This is exciting. I really hope to see a space elevator in my life time. I’d probably never ride it, of course - I’m petrified of heights - but it would be one heck of a photo opportunity.

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The novel’s on the back burner for the moment. I’ve had my head in it for about a year and a half, and I fear I’m getting a little sick of these people. And that they’re getting sick of me. So here’s hoping the absence really does make the heart grow fonder while I bash out this novella in another Moleskine.

I’m lucky enough to have a very good friend by the name of Fleur, who has very kindly reminded me of the minor drought of updates of late with a somewhat stern email. This is something I asked her to do if she caught me shirkin’ on any of my new years resolutions, and something I always do on any resolutions I want to actually to stick to. I’m just glad she’s on my side, I don’t think I’ve ever been physically cowed by a }:| smiley before.

Anyways, there is a reason besides abject laziness for my lack of posting - for some reason my blogging increases as the quantity of fiction writing I do increases, and my fiction writing has been suffering of late owing to a character death and lots of unhappiness in my characters. I’ve resolved not to spend much time dwelling it, because I’m not enjoying writing it. If I’m not enjoying writing it, you can guarantee that no-one will enjoy reading it either, and so I pretty much ahve to blitz through it.

And yes, I know on a more logical level it’s a little silly of me to get hung up on the relationships between groups of people who don’t exist. True, everyone does it, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid, to get upset about things which haven’t actually happened to anyone that actually exists.

But hey, no-one said life was logical.